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How would the connotation have changed if Orwell had
used "watched"?


Sagot :

Answer:

The word “scrutinized” suggests that the government is not just idly watching the movements of its citizens, it is actively looking and picking apart everything they do to watch for any sort of infraction. The word “watched” would have had a much less ominous, as well as less active, feeling.